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Ross Douthat: Let?s talk about faith

By Alliance Alert

Ross Douthat writing in the New York Times: "Liberal democracy offers religious believers a bargain. Accept, as a price of citizenship, that you may never impose your convictions on your neighbor, or use state power to compel belief. In return, you will be free to practice your own faith as you see fit ? and free, as well, to compete with other believers (and nonbelievers) in the marketplace of ideas. That?s the theory. In practice, the admirable principle that nobody should be persecuted for their beliefs often blurs into the more illiberal idea that nobody should ever publicly criticize another religion. Or champion one?s own faith as an alternative. Or say anything whatsoever about religion, outside the privacy of church, synagogue or home."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).